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Question

Eydie Gormé (“EE-dee gor-MAY”) accompanies Los Panchos on the wildly popular album Amor, which features songs in this genre like “Sabor a Mi.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this genre of love ballad popular in mid-century Latin America. It shares its name with a slow Spanish couple’s dance that names a Maurice Ravel orchestral piece featuring a repetitive snare drum ostinato.

ANSWER: bolero [accept Boléro]

[10m] Bolero songs were invented by itinerant trovadores in the east of this country. This country’s genre of son (“sone”) uses a clave (“CLAH-vay”) rhythm whose first bar, a 3+3+2 tresillo (“treh-SEE-yoh”), is ubiquitous in pop music.

ANSWER: Cuba [or Republic of Cuba or República de Cuba]

[10h] Granados’s “The Maiden and the Nightingale” inspired this Mexican bolero written by a 16-year-old Consuelo Velázquez, the most-covered Spanish-language song of the 20th century. A nine-minute orchestral rendition of this song appears on João Gilberto’s (“zhoo-OW zhee-oo-BARE-too’s”) album Amoroso.

ANSWER: “Bésame Mucho” [prompt on “Kiss Me A Lot” or “Kiss Me Much”]

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2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	15.00	88%	63%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	17.50	75%	50%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	12.00	80%	40%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Amherst	Boston University	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech A	South Carolina	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech B	North Carolina A	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech C	North Carolina B	10	10	0	20
WashU	Missouri	10	10	0	20
Madmen and Specialists	In the Mood for Buzz	10	10	0	20
Social credit go vroom	Old and Young	10	10	0	20
Paddington in Peru (2024)	ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	10	0	0	10
Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	10	10	0	20
bingy academy	The cult of SGA	10	10	0	20
Pitt	Maryland	10	10	0	20
Boston College B	Brandeis B	10	0	0	10
MIT	Bowdoin B	10	10	0	20
Clark House	Tufts B	0	0	0	0
Harvard	Clark Wilson	10	10	0	20
Tufts A	Bowdoin A	10	10	0	20
Yale	Brandeis A	10	10	0	20
UCF B	UCF A	10	10	0	20
UF B	Valencia	10	0	0	10
UF A	USF	0	10	0	10
Berkeley A	Berkeley Past	10	10	0	20
Stanford	Berkeley B	10	0	0	10
Waterloo Aspidistra	Carleton A	10	10	0	20
Toronto B	Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	10	10	0	20
Toronto A	Toronto Metropolitan A	10	10	0	20
McGill A	Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	10	0	0	10
Waterloo Basic	Waterloo Cloze	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Lambert	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame	Chicago B	10	0	0	10
Illinois Blue	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Illinois Orange	Purdue B	10	10	10	30
SIUE	Purdue A	0	0	0	0
Bristol	Cambridge A	0	10	0	10
Southampton	Cambridge B	10	0	0	10
Imperial B	Warwick A	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Warwick B	10	0	0	10
LSE B	Warwick C	10	0	0	10
Anderson et al.	SGV Ventures	10	10	0	20
Claremont	ALCU	10	10	0	20
U[C]SD	Jason et al.	10	10	0	20
Bowdoin C	Boston College A	10	0	0	10